"Inception" Dreams and reality, spiritual exploration and physical action. Nolan's intellectual action drama that combines contradictory elements

Nolan's play explores the control of time

What kind of theatrical ingenuity did Nolan use to transform this material, which has been worked on by famous writers and filmmakers, into an original film?

If you compare his 1998 debut film " Following ," 2000 semi-original screenplay " Memento " (screenplay written by his brother Christopher from a short story written by his brother Jonathan Nolan), and "Inception," the story There is a clear sense of style that controls the flow of time.

In ``Following'', Bill, an aspiring writer, is noticed by Cobb (who has the same name as the main character of ``Inception''), a man he was following while looking for ideas, and eventually begins to repeatedly burglarize houses with Cobb. The movie begins with Bill's confession while being interrogated by a detective, and the story of his past is depicted through Bill's recollections and Cobb's point of view, and the truth is cleverly hidden by changing the time forward and backward, until the truth is revealed at the end. It is configured to do this.

In ``Memento,'' a 5-minute sequence (color footage) was created in chronological order to give the audience a simulated experience of the consciousness of the main character, Leonard (Guy Pearce), who suffers from anterograde amnesia and can only retain memories for 5 to 10 minutes. I devised a method to connect them in the opposite direction. On the other hand, short black and white videos inserted between color scenes are arranged in chronological order.

``Inception'' represents a further evolution of the style of drama that controls time. In the aforementioned ``Hidden Miracles'' from Borges's ``Legends,'' the playwright faces execution by firing squad and is granted a ``one year's reprieve'' by God in the few seconds before his death (during which time, the people around him (Events are physically stationary) and recent scientific findings that brain activity is activated during dreaming and we experience the passage of time longer than in reality. , we set a rule that ``5 minutes of reality becomes 1 hour of dream'', and the next layer of dreams will take even longer to experience. Based on this, four layers of dreams that occur simultaneously in different time flows are drawn in parallel during Cobb's final mission.

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Nolan also incorporated the usual action and spectacle of crime and spy movies into the missions in each layer of the dream, including kidnappings, car chases, gunfights and fights, con The Game, and infiltrating enemy lines. In other words, while exploring the possibilities of the spiritual world of dreams, he has successfully pulled off the extraordinary feat of delivering physical action befitting an entertaining blockbuster.

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